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Slave-owner in Jamaica. The Hon John Barclay was Custos of St David in 1851. James A. Delle traces his trajectory from a book-keeper on Whitfield Hall in 1802, through his slave-ownership by his establishment of Woburn Lawn and by his purchase and sub-division of Mavis Bank, and then to his office-holding post-Emancipation.
Jamaica Almanac 1851; James A. Delle, The Colonial Caribbean: Landscapes of Power in Jamaica's Plantation System (2014) pp.127-8. Kathleen E. A. Monteith, Plantation Coffee in Jamaica (2019) p. 29 shows him as the same man as the John Barclay employed, by 1806 as overseer, on Abbey Green between 1803 and 1811.
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The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:
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1807 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Overseer
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1829 [EA] - → Attorney
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1823 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Not known
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1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
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1781 - 1830
Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family who had numerous mercantile connections in the West Indies. The compensation for Baillie's Bacolet in Grenada was awarded to the trustees of her marriage settlement. Grand-daughter of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenmure. Apparently a victim of the quack doctor John St John Lang of Harley Street in 1830.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'John Barclay', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/24338/ [accessed 20th April 2024].
